2007, Vol.34, No.1

Korean Social Science Journal 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.06

pISSN : 1225-0368 / eISSN : 2196-4424
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kssj

This paper has investigated institutional changes in corpo-rate sector in Korea. The following three areas of institutional reform have been covered by the case studies of the relevant firms: 1) workforce restructuring in labor .management relations, 2) independent directors in corporate governance, and 3) business restructuring. It first confirms the importance of transparency in corporate management and institutions as one of the most fundamental requirements of the market economy and second, the importance of how to handle some tension betwen the global standards and local specificity in corporate reform. The paper has argued that emphasis on flexibility as a global standard in labor mar-kets tend to result in segmented labor markets when it faces with local specificity of strong labor unions. Emphasis on market-based corporate restructuring as global standard in restructuring might not work well, given the local specificity of opaque corporate governance which accord high premium for the controlling management. Also, introduction of independent directors as a global standard in the board might have limited impacts when there is strong and long .term owners in place to keep personal control over the firms (local specificity).

Is there a single East Asian welfare state model? How dideconomic policies, globalization, democratization, and economic crisis af-fect the welfare regimes of the East Asian societies? Previous studies on welfare states focused on western advanced societies. A few studies on the East Asian welfare states focused on Japan or other East Asian countries up to late 1980s. This paper is an exploratory study to expand the welfare state debates to East Asian societies (Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Philippines) since the late 1980s to 2005. During this period, these societies experienced post.industrialization, globalization, and democratization at a different pace, to a different degre, and, possibly, on different tracks. Based on a preliminary comparative analysis, I discussed that the East Asian wel-fare regimes showed a sign of increasing divergences in multiple dimensions. I argued that, among diverse factors, economic developmental strategies and the level of democratization influenced the path of wel-fare state development in recent periods.

The purpose of this study is to examine how affective.ex-pectancy influences and forms attitudes toward advertising and how spe-cific affection (humorous, touching, and fear) influences attitudes differ-ently beyond dichotomized affection in advertising. The findings of this study demonstrated that the effect of emotion on a designated prefer-ence in response to emotionally framed advertising was not a simple function of valence. Rather, preference only increased when the emo-tional framing of the advertisement matched the phenomenological state of the recipient. Specifically, expectation of humorous showed most in-creased preference for the humorous.framed version of the advertising, and expectation of touching showed the most increased preference for the touching .framed version of the advertising. However, expectation of fear did not show the increase in preference for the fear.framed version of the advertisement.